RFC 138 (rfc138) - Page 1 of 23
Status report on proposed Data Reconfiguration Service
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group Bob Anderson
Request for Comments: 138 Rand
NIC 6715 Vint Cerf
UCLA
Eric Harslem
John Heafner
Rand
Jim Madden
U. of Illinois
Bob Metcalfe
MIT
Arie Shoshani
SDC
Jim White
UCSB
David Wood
Mitre
28 April 1971
STATUS REPORT ON PROPOSED DATA RECONFIGURATION SERVICE
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ................................. 2
Purpose of this RFC .......................... 2
Motivation ................................... 2
II. OVERVIEW OF DATA RECONFIGURATION SERVICE ..... 3
Elements of Data Reconfiguration Service ..... 3
Conceptual Network Connections ............... 3
Connection Protocols and Message Formats ..... 4
Example Connection Configurations ............ 6
III. THE FORM MACHINE ............................. 7
Input/Output Stream and Forms ................ 7
Form Machine BNF Syntax ...................... 7
Alternate Specification of Form Machine Syntax 8
Forms ........................................ 9
Rules ........................................ 10
Terms ........................................ 10
Term Format 1 .............................. 11
Term Format 2 .............................. 11
Term Format 3 .............................. 13
Term Format 4 .............................. 13
Application of a Term ...................... 14
Anderson, et al.
